Did You Mean Plugin¶ ↑

A Redmine plugin to search for possible duplicates when users are about to open new issues. You can find more information on the project wiki: github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean/wiki

Install¶ ↑

1. Follow the Redmine plugin installation steps at: www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins

2. Make sure the plugin installation directory name is redmine_didyoumean

3. Restart the server (this will ensure that the CSS file and other assets are copied to the right place)

4. (optional) Configure the plugin by navigating to Administration > Plugins and select the Configure label on the line for Did You Mean?

Searching engines¶ ↑

By default plugin use SQL Engine, but there is available SphinxSearch Engine.

1. Before you switch to Thinking Sphinx you should make sure that SphinxSearch engine was installed

for Debian/Ubuntu users

• sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

• Plugin use Thinking Sphinx v3.1.1 and Sphinx should be v2.2.4 or newer.

• Thinking Sphinx will be installed with bundle commend (was definded in Gemfile)

for RedHat/CentOS users

• curl -L -o sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm

• sudo yum install ./sphinx-2.2.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm

• sudo chkconfig searchd on

• Plugin use Thinking Sphinx v3.1.1 and Sphinx should be v2.2.4 or newer.

• Thinking Sphinx will be installed with bundle commend (was definded in Gemfile)

2. If everything was successfully installed then in your console run(in main Redmine catalog):

• bundle exec rake ts:index (index your data)

• bundle exec rake ts:start

• Choose search method : Administration -> Plugins -> Redmine Did You Mean? -> select Thinking Sphinx Engine.

• Now possibly duplicated subject’s will be searching by Sphinx.

3. If you want stop searching by SphinxSearch Engine in your console run:

• bundle exec rake ts:stop

• Switch method in plugin configuration.

Difference between search engines¶ ↑

The main advantage of SphinxSearch is the fact that if you set many words to searching, this gives you results faster then SQL Engine.

* SQL Engine: Takes words 1:1 if you match ‘GUI Changes’ this will be looking for “GUI” “Changes”.

* Thinking Sphinx Engine: Firstly search for words 1:1 after this substract last character ex. like: “Running”

- Firstly "Running" 
- "Runner"
- etc.

License¶ ↑

This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. See COPYRIGHT.txt and GPL.txt for details.

Project help¶ ↑

If you need help you can contact the maintainers on the project page on GitHub (github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean). If you want to report bugs, please open a new issue here: github.com/abahgat/redmine_didyoumean/issues

Please search for duplicates first :P